For students
rentfeed reads every new London listing and alerts you within minutes when one fits your budget and your campus commute. Built for second years, postgrads, and anyone renting sight-unseen.
Renting sight-unseen
The good homes go fast, and you may be applying from another timezone. rentfeed watches the market continuously and emails you the moment a listing fits.
The photos, the floorplan, real room sizes, light and condition. You’ll know the second bedroom is a real room before you pay anyone anything.
Add up to 6 places with door-to-door journey times — the 9am lecture, a part-time job, the station home.
Stay safe
That’s exactly when students arrange housing from overseas. The classic scam is a convincing listing, a landlord who can’t do viewings, and a deposit wired for a home that doesn’t exist. Renters lost around £9 million to rental fraud in the UK last year, and nearly half the victims were aged 18 to 29.
Every rentfeed alert comes from a monitored feed of listings published by real letting agents — and because you hear within minutes, nobody can use “it’ll be gone by tomorrow” against you.
Figures from the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau, 2024. If something feels wrong, report it at reportfraud.police.uk.
The practical bits
Capped at five weeks’ rent for most tenancies, and it must go into a government-approved protection scheme. The agent has to tell you which scheme within 30 days of you paying.
Most agents want a UK-based guarantor. Some universities run guarantor schemes — ask your accommodation office first — and commercial guarantor services can stand in for a fee.
The rules changed in May 2026: landlords can only ask for rent once you’ve signed the agreement, and at most one month up front. Paying six months in advance is no longer an option, so a guarantor matters more — sort yours early.
rentfeed covers private houses and flats listed by London letting agents. For university halls, your university’s accommodation office is the right place to start.